Brian I think ICE executives if they want to promote EVs they need to start driving EVs.
While I don't see any reason for automotive executives to promote EVs, I agree that
if they want to promote them
then they should drive them
at least some of the time. What does Barra drive in the summer?
This can't be an all-or-nothing issue, or all EV advocates would need to give up air travel, and refuse to buy anything from any store, because it is all delivered by diesel trucks. For that matter Tesla should shut down, because it is completely dependent of diesel engines to transport both its supplies and its products.
At the same time,
everyone who says that engines are bad and electric cars are good should drive one... not "when the right vehicle is available", or "if I get enough government subsidy", or "when it's convenient to recharge", but now. Survey the 'green' politicians and the entertainment stars who are always telling us what the world should do (while living in resource-sucking mansions): do they actually drive EVs? I don't; most of them don't, either.
What's an "ICE executive"? While General Motors is a huge manufacturer of internal combustion engines, that is simply a part of being an automotive manufacturer. GM is an auto manufacturer which created the first modern purpose-built EV (the EV-1), has sold the most popular plug-in (the Volt) for 8 years, is essentially tied with Tesla for total cars-with-a-plug (Bolt plus Volt in GM's case) sales, and actually (with Nissan, and unlike Tesla) produces EVs that many people of average income can afford.